It's now likely that he will be voted the Japanese champion (HOTY) two years in a row.
Let's see what he does in the upcoming Japan Cup and Arima Kinen before he will retire from racing to stand at Shadai Stallion Station next year.
If he can win both, he will surpass the record for earnings set by TM Opera O.

Cheval Grand's dam Halwa Sweet(JPN) has now produced three individual G1 winners with the sons of Sunday Silence(USA) adding to her filly foals Verxina(JPN) and Vivlos(JPN), both by Deep Impact(JPN).
Her 3rd dam is the legendary Glorious Song(CAN).
Cheval Grand(JPN) is owned by ex-MLB pitcher ''Dai-Majin'' Kazuhiro Sasaki who also had Verxina(JPN) and Vivlos(JPN).

Gold Dream(JPN), 2013C. Gold Allure(JPN) x Mont Vert(JPN) by French Deputy(USA), stormed home under Ryan Moore to win the G1 Champions Cup 1800m dirt at Chukyo on December 3rd 2017.

He became the third horse in history to capture JRA's two dirt G1 races (the February Stakes and the Champions Cup) in the same year following Wing Arrow(JPN)(Assatis) in 2000 and Transcend(JPN)(Wild Rush) in 2011.

Lucky Lilac(JPN), 2015F. Orfevre(JPN) x Lilacs and Lace(USA) by Flower Alley(USA), won the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies 1600m turf at Hanshin and stretched her winning streak to three on December 10th 2017.
The unbeaten filly became the first G1 winner for the first-crop-sire Orfevre(JPN).

Can I just say it was interesting trying to follow THREE chestnut fillies with white blazes through that race??? I wasn't quite sure at first who was Social Club, Rock This Town or Lucky Lilac and I knew who the winner was before I watched.

Whatever faults American racing may have, our colored saddle towels are wonderful. Wish the rest of the world would adopt them. Trying to follow horses in the huge Japanese fields is a strain on MY eyes, and their habit of having the camera scan back through the field during a race is not helpful.
Why would you take the camera off the front of the field so you can show close-ups of the back markers? I can remember an instance when there was a potential foul by one of the front runners, but no one in the TV audience could see it. Late charges, winning moves, close quarters...it often happens off-screen while the camera pans down the whole field.
Why? Why aren't we seeing the whole field at once? grumblegrumblegrumble

When I've watched it's been a split screen, with the field on top (though from afar & small) while the camera pans down from front to rear. It does make it hard to see sometimes when a stalker starts their run, or if there's pinching/bumping/turbulence.

This time it didn't help, either, that all three fillies were in Sunday Racing silks and the only way to differentiate was by cap color (green, pink & white) or *if* you could see the number.

In my experience, there is often a split screen, but for only part of the race. When the field approaches/rounds the last turn, that split screen disappears. We are then 'treated' to the rundown of the whole field, from front to last, even though losing sight of the front runners is not, IMHO, a very good idea.